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North Korea’s cry for help in feeding its people poses a stark contrast to its recent bellicose rhetoric, offering a glimpse of a much different reality for a nation which, in recent weeks, has threatened to obliterate its enemies into a “sea of fire”. At a courtesy call on the president of Mongolia, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, …

A famine may have hit North Korea’s grain-growing region last year, meaning thousands of people succumbed to hunger at the same time the country staged mass celebrations to commemorate the impoverished state’s founder, according to Japan-based news agency. Rimjin-gang/ASIAPRESS said that unreported famine hit the North and South Hwanghae provinces between January-May 2012. The information …